Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Yuqing Chicken realizes that Daochen is a legendary powerhouse who attained the Dao through sheer strength, making him capable of defeating even experts at the highest Saint Realm levels. He apologizes for offending him, though he privately blames the Devil Ancestor for withholding the truth.
• In a separate prison, Hongjun identifies their confinement as a time cage created by Shichen, surrounded by a spatial formation likely made by Yang Mei. He reflects on how his former friendship with Yang Mei deteriorated, perhaps because Hongjun once barred outsiders like him from entering the Primordial World.
• Taiyi and Dijun reveal that the Fate Curse is consuming them: their fingers have disappeared, and the curse is spreading rapidly. They say it is contagious and believe Hongjun has already been infected.
• Hongjun initially clings to the possibility of an antidote involving the Waters of Time and Space, but Taiyi and Dijun argue that Shichen’s willingness to oppose powerful enemies suggests the remedy—or the means to escape—may not be attainable. Hongjun concludes they may be doomed.
• Suddenly, Hongjun rises and declares they must escape. A different voice briefly takes control of his body before Hongjun regains command.

Character developments and interactions

• Yuqing Chicken shifts from arrogance to fear and apologizes to Daochen, while privately resenting the Devil Ancestor.
• Hongjun grows from strategic confidence to despair as he learns of the curse, then abruptly shows renewed urgency. His reflections reveal regret about how power and ambition changed his relationships.
• Taiyi and Dijun appear resigned to death, yet demonstrate clear judgment by challenging Hongjun’s assumptions about the antidote and Shichen’s motives. They apologize for potentially infecting him.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei’s former friendship is shown to have been damaged by Hongjun’s past exclusion of outsiders. Hongjun also feels a measure of resentment toward Taiyi and Dijun despite recognizing they did not intentionally harm him.

Significant themes

• Power and humility: Daochen’s strength exposes how limited the others’ understanding of the world is.
• The consequences of ambition: Hongjun’s former supremacy and policies may have helped destroy his friendship with Yang Mei.
• Fate and helplessness: The contagious curse makes even powerful figures feel unable to control their deaths.
• Trust and betrayal: The characters struggle to distinguish deliberate treachery from painful consequences, while hidden forces continue to influence their actions.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun realizes the Heavenly Dao still controls his fate and explains his predicament to Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun. The three agree to fight rather than wait passively.
• Hongjun opens a Space Gate and instructs Taiyi and Dijun to flee. Yang Mei notices and pursues them with Shichen.
• The pursuers follow what appear to be Taiyi and Dijun, but Yang Mei recognizes them as spatial projections. He explains that Hongjun used the relationship between space and time to evade Shichen’s Space-Time Cage.
• Daochen and Luo Hou arrive at the mountain, find it empty, and assume Hongjun has escaped. Daochen is relieved that Hongjun chose to act, though he wonders how they will find him.
• Hongjun, Taiyi, and Dijun then emerge from the Space-Time Cage, revealing that the apparent escape was a staged decoy. Yang Mei and Shichen have been lured into a false space connected to Chaos.
• Daochen and Luo Hou are already waiting. Daochen examines Hongjun, Taiyi, and Dijun and discovers powerful Fate Curses on them, confirming that the curse is spreading among powerful cultivators.

Character developments

• Hongjun shifts from despair about being controlled to taking decisive action. He proves himself a clever strategist, using deception and spatial techniques to outwit Yang Mei and Shichen.
• Taiyi and Dijun remain composed and cooperate with Hongjun’s escape plan, despite their apparent danger.
• Yang Mei demonstrates expertise in space and time, quickly identifying the decoy and explaining how Hongjun could defeat the cage.
• Shichen is unsettled that Hongjun escaped his restraint, especially because he had trusted Hongjun’s promise not to flee.
• Daochen responds positively to Hongjun’s survival but remains concerned about locating him; his examination also reveals the curse’s wider reach.

Significant themes

• Survival through cunning: Hongjun refuses to accept a seemingly unavoidable death and relies on planning and misdirection.
• Trust and deception: Shichen’s faith in Hongjun’s word contrasts with Hongjun’s secret escape plan.
• Fate and control: The Heavenly Dao and the Fate Curse threaten characters’ autonomy, while Hongjun struggles to act within forces larger than himself.
• The spread of danger: The curse is not isolated; it appears to affect many powerful cultivators.

Character interactions

• Hongjun honestly shares his situation with Taiyi and Dijun, then coordinates their escape.
• Yang Mei and Shichen pursue the apparent fugitives; Yang Mei explains the spatial trick after recognizing the deception.
• Daochen and Luo Hou discuss Hongjun’s supposed escape, with Daochen relieved that he did not give up.
• Daochen confronts the returned trio by examining their bodies, identifying the Fate Curse affecting them.

Plot and key events

• Daochen realizes that Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun have been suffering from a fate curse for a long time, though neither they nor Devil Ancestor Luo Hou understands what is happening.
• Daochen initially wants to discuss the matter privately, but Hongjun persuades him to let Luo Hou stay. Daochen then reveals that he can remove the curse and absorbs it from Taiyi, Dijun, and Hongjun. Their missing hands return, though he keeps the method secret.
• With the group apparently restored and strong enough to escape, Luo Hou turns to his own agenda: he asks Demon Emperor Daochen to help him establish a Demon Realm independent of the Primordial World’s control.
• Daochen confirms that he created his own Demon Realm but refuses to help without a reason. Luo Hou claims the four visitors’ lives are in his hands. Daochen and Hongjun dismiss the threat, confident that their combined strength makes them formidable.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shows confidence and restraint: he cures the curse without apparent cost, conceals how he did it, and refuses to be pressured into helping Luo Hou.
• Taiyi and Dijun are relieved by their recovery and grateful, but worry that Daochen might harm himself. They accept his decision not to explain.
• Hongjun supports Daochen’s discretion and allows Luo Hou to hear the conversation, while recognizing the curse’s seriousness.
• Luo Hou shifts from wary observer to ambitious negotiator. He is eager to gain freedom through his own Demon Realm, but misjudges his leverage when he threatens the united group.

Significant themes

• Hidden knowledge and leverage: Daochen keeps the curse’s nature and cure secret, potentially preserving an advantage in future negotiations.
• Freedom and self-determination: Luo Hou seeks a realm beyond another world’s control, echoing the Demon Emperor’s independence.
• Misjudged power: Luo Hou assumes he can dictate terms, while Daochen and Hongjun believe the balance of strength has shifted against him.

Plot points

• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou reveals that the Beyond Lands’ apparent escape was deliberate: it was meant to lure Daochen out of the Primordial World.
• The group is trapped at a node in the River of Time and Space, where time is accelerating. Leaving without finding the route out could doom them to the Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
• Luo Hou summons Daoist Shichen, Great Immortal Yang Mei, and numerous powerful Beyond Lands Sages. Their formation produces multiple Nine-Heavens Devil Ancestors, turning the odds sharply against Daochen and his allies.
• Daochen offers to explain how to establish the Demon Realm, but presses Luo Hou to reveal who gave him that knowledge. Luo Hou’s glance toward the sky leads Daochen to suspect Fate is behind the scheme.
• Luo Hou says the Beyond Lands intend to create their own world to escape the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s suppression and pursue the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• Daochen realizes that trapping him would leave the Primordial World vulnerable if the Demon Realm were seized. Rather than remain captive, he and Hongjun decide to risk getting lost in the River of Time and Space.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from confidence to grave concern as he understands the trap, but remains defiant. He sees the Beyond Lands Sages as pawns of Fate and warns Luo Hou that their cooperation will end badly.
• Luo Hou reveals himself as a calculated strategist, though he insists the Beyond Lands have their own ambitions and are not ready to resist Fate.
• Hongjun and Daochen recognize each other’s intentions through a silent exchange and agree to make a desperate escape attempt.
• Luo Hou and Daochen clash verbally: Luo Hou emphasizes the trap’s inescapability, while Daochen challenges the wisdom of serving Fate.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and hidden agendas: The apparent escape was bait, and Fate may be orchestrating events behind both sides.
• Ambition and independence: The Beyond Lands seek a world of their own to escape Heavenly Dao’s control.
• Risk and consequence: Daochen’s underestimation of his opponents helps land him in the trap; now escape may mean facing a worse fate.
• Trust and uncertainty: No one can be sure who is controlling events—or whether apparent allies are merely being used.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen, Hongjun, and two companions enter the River of Time and Space. While watching Daochen’s past unfold, he realizes how often he made mistakes and how narrowly he escaped the Heavenly Dao’s plans. He also discovers that Fate had influenced his life from early on, though it never fully controlled him.
• Hongjun warns that they are about to enter history and may lose themselves there. Daochen soon blacks out, and the group becomes immersed in the Primordial World’s past.
• Daochen awakens as Pangu in primordial Chaos. Confused by Hongjun’s presence, he speaks of wanting to create a race and bring life to the desolate Chaos.
• Hongjun’s casual mention of “opening the heavens” gives Pangu the idea to create a living world. Hongjun realizes Daochen is not truly Pangu but is trapped in a dreamlike historical identity.
• To help Daochen awaken, Hongjun decides to remain beside him and guide him through the story of creation. He explains that a world needs Laws—and that slaying Demon Gods can provide their origins and the Great Daos they embody.

Character developments

• Daochen/Pangu: Daochen’s historical immersion blurs his identity. As Pangu, he becomes determined to create a world, but does not understand how to do it. His imagined Pangu is guileless and uncertain despite his immense power.
• Hongjun: He recognizes Daochen’s predicament and takes responsibility for keeping him grounded. He shifts from anxious observer to active guide, despite lacking his former Sage-level power.

Significant themes

• Time, history, and identity: The River of Time can overwhelm even powerful beings, drawing them into past events and threatening their sense of self.
• Fate and free will: Daochen sees that Fate shaped his path without fully controlling him, while the Heavenly Dao’s earlier choices also determined how events unfolded.
• Creation through sacrifice and struggle: Building a living world requires mastering Laws, and the proposed means—slaying Demon Gods—foreshadows the immense violence and cost of creation.

Character interactions

• Hongjun tries to shake Daochen out of his Pangu identity, but Daochen does not recognize him and instead asks for help creating life.
• Hongjun’s remark about opening the heavens unintentionally inspires Pangu. Realizing Daochen is trapped in the role, Hongjun chooses to guide him through the creation myth and explains how Demon Gods’ origins can provide the Laws needed to form a world.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen transforms into Pangu and, carrying the Pangu Axe, eagerly sets out to hunt Chaos Demon Gods and take their origins.
• Hongjun catches up and insists on inspecting each Demon God before Pangu kills them, to ensure their Dao origins are needed and to prevent him from accidentally killing an ally. Pangu agrees to follow Hongjun’s judgment.
• Working together, they rapidly defeat Demon Gods and collect origins representing a thousand of the three thousand great Daos. Daochen, however, never awakens during the hunt.
• Meanwhile, Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun—trapped in the identities of the Time and Space Demon Gods—learn that Pangu is hunting their kind. They realize they are really themselves, fear they may die in the trap, and cannot find a way out.
• Hoping Hongjun or Daochen can help them locate an escape route, Taiyi and Dijun join a gathering of Demon Gods preparing to attack Pangu. The gathered Demon Gods vow to kill him, while the two disguise their anxiety and search the crowd for their allies. They find neither and are left wondering whether one final person might be Hongjun or Daochen.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen as Pangu appears far more impulsive and straightforward than his usual calculating self: eager to fight, confident in his strength, and willing to let Hongjun direct the killings.
• Hongjun acts as a cautious check on Pangu’s overwhelming force, guiding him and trying to protect valuable origins—and potential allies—from indiscriminate destruction.
• Taiyi and Dijun move from confusion about their assumed identities to clear recognition of their predicament. Their fear of death drives them to seek out Hongjun and Daochen, though they remain wary and restrained among the hostile Demon Gods.
• Hongjun and Pangu develop an effective working partnership; Taiyi and Dijun, by contrast, cling to each other as they navigate a dangerous crowd.

Significant themes

• Power tempered by judgment: Pangu’s strength makes him a terrifying force, while Hongjun’s caution determines how that strength is used.
• Identity and entrapment: Taiyi and Dijun awaken to the truth of who they are but remain trapped in another time-space scenario.
• Fear and survival: The Demon Gods’ violent resolve contrasts with Taiyi and Dijun’s private desperation to escape.
• The cost of creation: Pangu’s plan to create a world by killing the Demon Gods turns creation into a threat that prompts them to unite against him.

Plot points and events

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun still hope Daochen may be alive, reasoning that his immense strength could have allowed him to survive as another Demon God.
• A coalition of two thousand Demon Gods sets an ambush for Pangu, using the swift Chaos Thunder God to lure him in.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun recognizes the danger. Remembering the devastating battle in which Pangu once defeated the Demon Gods at the cost of severe injuries, he warns Pangu to stop pursuing them.
• Pangu ignores him, speaks with unexpected determination, and rushes to the ambush. Hongjun follows, suspecting that Daochen may be awakening.
• At the ambush, Pangu welcomes the gathered Demon Gods and says defeating them will complete his great undertaking: opening heaven and earth.
• Taiyi and Dijun realize that Pangu is indeed Daochen, but his powerful fixation on opening the world may prevent him from awakening until the deed is done. They decide to help him survive and hasten the task.
• Taiyi uses the “Space-Time Cage,” a technique associated with Daoist Shichen, to restrain Pangu. The Demon Gods mistake this for assistance and charge to kill him.

Character developments and interactions

• Pangu/Daochen appears more forceful and purposeful than before, though it remains unclear whether Daochen’s awareness has returned or whether Pangu’s obsession is driving him.
• Hongjun is protective of Pangu and wary of the ambush. His history with Pangu is personal: Pangu spared him in their earlier battle, and the remnants of Pangu’s power helped shape Hongjun’s position in the Primordial World.
• Taiyi and Dijun shift from searching for Daochen to actively intervening on his behalf. Taiyi’s use of Shichen’s signature technique highlights the identities and powers they now embody.
• Yang Mei and Shichen are explained to have survived Pangu’s earlier assault by surrendering part of their origins. They and other Beyond Lands Sages seek power and the recovery of those lost origins, while supporting Luo Hou as a potential ally.
• The Demon Gods believe Taiyi is helping them, setting up a dangerous misunderstanding as they attack the restrained Pangu.

Significant themes

• Identity and memory: Daochen may exist beneath Pangu’s identity, but his original self is obscured by Pangu’s overwhelming purpose.
• Obsession and destiny: Pangu’s drive to open heaven and earth shapes his actions and may be the only path to Daochen’s awakening.
• Ambition and alliance: The powerful figures pursue the Heavenly Dao Realm, balancing self-interest with mutual support.
• Sacrifice and survival: Pangu’s past victory came at immense cost, and the current allies fear that repeating that sacrifice could destroy Daochen as well.

Key plot points and events

• Chaos Demon Gods attack Pangu, believing Daoist Shichen has trapped him in a Space-Time Cage.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun realizes the figure called Shichen is actually Eastern Emperor Taiyi and warns him. Taiyi smashes the cage, freeing Pangu, who immediately resumes killing Demon Gods with the Chaos Divine Axe.
• Taiyi and Great Immortal Yang Mei claim someone destroyed the cage to frame them. Their conflicting accusations confuse the gathered Demon Gods, while Pangu’s assault continues.
• The Destruction God-Demon orders the disputing groups to be sent against Pangu. Taiyi and Dijun counter by accusing him of sacrificing others while staying safely behind.
• The Destruction God-Demon’s followers surround Taiyi, Dijun, Yang Mei, and their allies. Taiyi and Dijun urge the trapped Demon Gods to shelter behind Yang Mei’s Space Barrier and wait out the battle.
• Seeing the infighting as an opportunity, Hongjun quietly approaches the Destruction God-Demon and addresses him, setting up a confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Taiyi and Dijun work together to turn suspicion toward their enemies and rally nearby Demon Gods, revealing their skill at manipulation and their shared plan.
• Yang Mei supports their strategy by raising a Space Barrier and insisting the cage’s destruction was a frame-up.
• The Destruction God-Demon prioritizes defeating Pangu but grows furious when Taiyi and Dijun accuse him of plotting to rule Chaos.
• Hongjun moves from alarm to cautious optimism, then takes advantage of the chaos to approach the Destruction God-Demon.
• Pangu remains the overwhelming force driving events: his renewed attack makes the Demon Gods’ internal conflict all the more dangerous.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and suspicion: The cage’s destruction triggers accusations, and no one can tell who is truly responsible.
• Manipulation and survival: Taiyi and Dijun redirect blame and persuade others to avoid becoming expendable fighters.
• Power and sacrifice: The Demon Gods debate whether to risk death or surrender part of their origins to survive Pangu’s creation of heaven and earth.
• Hidden motives and fate: Hongjun’s knowledge of the Destruction God-Demon’s eventual survival—and its lasting effect on the Primordial World—connects present events to future consequences.

Key plot points

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun confronts the Destruction God-Demon, who fails to sense his arrival.
• Hongjun recalls that, after Pangu’s fall, the Destruction God-Demon invaded the fragile young Primordial World and tried to steal its destruction origin. Hongjun defeated him four times by temporarily merging with the Heavenly Dao.
• In the present, Hongjun warns the Demon God to flee rather than challenge Pangu. When the warning only enrages him, Hongjun withdraws—but first touches his right shoulder.
• The touch reveals an old injury: the Demon God’s shoulder goes numb, a private weakness Hongjun somehow knows. The Demon God becomes wary and attacks Hongjun, but the blow has no effect.
• Hongjun again urges him to escape, pointing out that Pangu is devastating the Chaos Demon Gods and that Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun have rallied others against him. Seeing the battle turning against them, the Demon God orders a retreat.

Character developments

• Hongjun is shown as confident and enigmatic. He can appear and disappear without detection, knows his enemy’s vulnerability, and withstands an attack without relying on the Heavenly Dao.
• The Destruction God-Demon shifts from aggression to suspicion and alarm as Hongjun repeatedly evades his senses and exposes his hidden weakness. He ultimately recognizes the danger and retreats.

Character interactions

• Hongjun’s warnings and teasing familiarity provoke the Demon God rather than persuading him.
• The Demon God’s punch tests Hongjun, but Hongjun remains unmoved and continues trying to save him from Pangu.
• Pangu’s rampage and the forces led by Taiyi and Dijun create the battlefield pressure that finally convinces the Demon God’s followers to flee.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a mighty Demon God has a concealed bodily weakness.
• Fate and foreknowledge: Hongjun appears to know the Demon God’s history and what may happen later.
• The cost of power: Hongjun’s past victories depended on merging with the Heavenly Dao, a choice that shaped his later devotion to it.
• The danger of hubris: The Demon God’s confidence gives way once he recognizes how badly the battle has turned.

Key events

• Pangu’s overwhelming strength drives most of the Chaos Demon Gods to defeat. The Destruction God-Demon flees, prompting several hundred others to desert with him.
• Hongjun explains that the Destruction God-Demon is unusually cautious: he believes resistance can only weaken Pangu at great cost, not stop him. Hongjun deliberately exploited this fear to make him retreat.
• The remaining Demon Gods seek protection from Hongjun, Taiyi, and Dijun. Hongjun promises they can survive by surrendering part of their Origin Great Daos and later settle in Pangu’s new world.
• The group accepts and turns against the Demon Gods still fighting Pangu. After the battle, Pangu says he still needs three hundred Great Daos, including the Destruction Great Dao.
• Learning that the Destruction God-Demon has retreated to his fortified stronghold, Pangu’s party goes there. The Destruction God-Demon orders the formations raised, confident they will hold.
• Pangu warns that he wants their Great Daos, not their lives, but will fight if they keep obstructing him. Hongjun makes one more attempt to persuade the Destruction God-Demon to surrender part of his essence.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun demonstrates sharp insight into the Destruction God-Demon’s fear and pragmatically brokers the surrender of the other Demon Gods’ Great Daos.
• The Destruction God-Demon prioritizes survival over loyalty or combat, fleeing first and then relying on his stronghold’s formations.
• Taiyi and Dijun are impressed by Hongjun’s influence and help manage the newly cooperative Demon Gods.
• The remaining Demon Gods quickly shift allegiance when defeat seems inevitable, choosing survival and the promise of a new home over their former allies.
• Pangu remains focused on gathering the Great Daos needed to create the world, preferring cooperation but prepared to use force.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and self-preservation: The Destruction God-Demon and the former allies alike choose survival over fighting a losing battle.
• Shifting loyalties: The Demon Gods’ rapid change of sides shows how fragile alliances become when power and survival are at stake.
• Persuasion versus force: Hongjun tries to secure cooperation through negotiation, while Pangu’s overwhelming strength remains the threat behind the negotiations.

Plot points and events

• Hongjun warns the Destruction God-Demon that Pangu cannot be stopped while fulfilling his fate of opening the heavens. Hongjun also wonders whether fate shaped Pangu’s actions or death, but admits the matter is mysterious.
• Unwilling to surrender without a fight, the Destruction God-Demon demands one attack against Pangu. Pangu breaks the Demon Gods’ formation, and the two exchange blows: Pangu wounds the Destruction God-Demon’s shoulder, while the Demon God strikes Pangu’s shoulder.
• Recognizing Pangu’s superiority—and that Pangu seeks to create rather than destroy them—the Destruction God-Demon offers the origins of the three thousand great daos in exchange for an end to the fighting. Pangu agrees.
• Pangu gathers the great daos and laws, locates the Endless Sea flowing through chaos, and warns everyone to flee before he begins.
• At full strength, Pangu cleaves the chaos apart. Clear qi rises and turbid qi sinks, forming heaven and earth. When chaos tries to crush the new world back into itself, Pangu uses his origin power to hold it off, then devours the surrounding chaos.
• Pangu shapes the world, creating stars, the Sun and Lunar Stars, and a continent. As chaos gathers again, he forms a protective membrane around the world.

Character developments and interactions

• The Destruction God-Demon moves from regret and defiance to grudging respect and surrender. His brief clash with Pangu proves his courage, but also confirms the vast difference in their power.
• Pangu/Daochen acts with overwhelming force yet shows restraint toward enemies who surrender. He remains focused on creating the world, even when chaos itself resists him.
• Hongjun shifts from advising surrender to observing the creation with excitement and envy of Daochen, who experiences the event firsthand. He continues questioning the role of fate in Pangu’s destiny.
• The exchange between Pangu and the Destruction God-Demon ends without lasting hostility: the Demon God offers the origins, and Pangu accepts their surrender.

Significant themes

• Fate and uncertainty: Hongjun questions whether Pangu’s life and death are governed by fate, without finding answers.
• Power and humility: Even a formidable Demon God recognizes Pangu’s unmatched strength after facing him.
• Creation through sacrifice and struggle: Pangu spends his own origin power—and absorbs chaos—to establish and protect the new world.
• Conflict and restraint: The clash ends through surrender rather than annihilation, as Pangu’s goal is creation, not conquest.

Key events

• After creating the Primordial World, Pangu grows lonely and brings life to it by studying creatures in the Endless Sea and creating beings modeled on them.
• Daochen awakens within what he recognizes as the Primordial World’s history. Remembering Pangu’s creation of the world and battle with the Demon Gods has greatly deepened his understanding of the Great Dao, though he still needs more sage power to advance.
• Daochen explains that Pangu is fated to die so the world can evolve independently; the Heavenly Dao and Sages emerge from that evolution.
• He realizes Fate has been maneuvering to claim his body, just as the Heavenly Dao covets Hongjun’s. This revelation makes him more determined to grow strong enough to resist possession.
• Daochen lets the Destruction God-Demon remain in the newly created world. He then tries to understand how to escape the history-like realm.
• Hongjun recalls that his group once escaped after Eastern Emperor Taiyi ate a fruit, but cannot explain why. Daochen concludes they are inside a disrupted memory of spacetime, not the original Primordial World. To escape, they must restore the memory’s proper sequence: the Gods and Devils must vanish, world-opening merit must appear, the Primordial World must be established, and Pangu must die.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from studying the events around him to interpreting their deeper meaning. He recognizes the threat Fate poses and takes charge of reasoning out how to escape.
• Hongjun shares his uncertainty with Daochen and acknowledges that their survival may depend on him.
• The Destruction God-Demon does not understand Daochen and Hongjun’s discussion, instead pleading with Pangu for permission to remain and cultivate.
• Daochen and Hongjun develop a sense of shared misfortune: both are targets of powerful cosmic forces seeking to possess their bodies.

Significant themes

• Fate and agency: Powerful forces treat living beings as pawns, while Daochen seeks enough strength to resist.
• Creation and sacrifice: Pangu’s death is presented as necessary for the world’s independent development.
• Memory versus reality: The realm feels real, but Daochen understands it as a disrupted historical memory whose events must be restored to their original order.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen suspects the River of Time and Space is actually the memories of a powerful being, and that the group is trapped within a fixed stretch of history rather than a fully real, progressing world.
• He argues that this history must be restored to its proper sequence. Pangu’s death is essential: without it, there is no Heaven-Opening Merit, later life cannot arise as it should, and the world remains stuck.
• Hongjun worries that Daochen may be putting himself in danger, and is uneasy about killing beings they promised to spare. Daochen says their deaths are dictated by history, not a betrayal of their promise.
• Daochen proposes testing his theory by killing the Destruction God-Demon, who is meant to survive into the future. He beheads and dismembers him—but the Demon God remains conscious and appears unharmed by death, prompting the other Demon Gods to accuse Pangu of breaking his word and attack.

Character developments

• Daochen shows growing resolve, accepting personal risk to restore history and free the group from its apparent stagnation.
• Hongjun remains conscientious and bound by his promises, but becomes willing to test Daochen’s theory when the target is the Destruction God-Demon.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Dijun support the experiment, while acknowledging that Daochen is the only one strong enough to carry it out.
• The Destruction God-Demon shifts from wary deference to bewilderment when he survives what should have been a fatal attack.

Significant themes

• History and fate: Some events must occur for the future to exist; resisting them may keep the world frozen.
• Reality and memory: The apparent world may be an imitation preserved within a powerful being’s memories.
• Promises versus necessity: The group must weigh compassion and honor against the demands of restoring the proper course of events.
• Death and existence: The Destruction God-Demon’s apparent survival challenges their assumptions about what “death” means inside this historical realm.

Character interactions

• Daochen explains his theory to Hongjun, Taiyi, and Dijun, and presses Hongjun to recall which Gods and Demons historically survived or died.
• Hongjun questions the morality and consequences of the plan; Daochen reassures him that the deaths are inevitable within history.
• The group agrees to test the theory on the Destruction God-Demon. Daochen attacks him, provoking the other Demon Gods’ anger—until he points out that the target may not actually be dead.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen reveals that the Chaos Demon Gods are not truly alive: they are fixed remnants trapped in a stretch of history. They cannot change, grow stronger, or die, and even suicide only leads to their bodies restoring themselves.
• He explains that proper history has already unfolded: Pangu opened the world, died holding heaven and earth apart, and the Demon Gods were slain. The beings present are merely repeating part of that past.
• To prove his claims, Daochen kills and crushes the Destruction God-Demon, who repeatedly regenerates. Hongjun confirms details about the Demon God’s past injury, convincing him that the future Daochen describes is real.
• The Demon Gods test Daochen’s explanation by cultivating, damaging themselves, and attempting suicide. None of it changes their condition. They also discover that Chaos has a boundary they cannot cross.
• Horrified by their endless, unchanging existence, they plead for release and ask to glimpse the future world. Daochen offers to let them place their Spiritual Senses within his body, which will become all things after his death.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts as the group’s blunt guide, demonstrating the Demon Gods’ immortality and insisting they test his claims for themselves. He is ultimately moved by their desperation and proposes a way for them to witness the future.
• Hongjun is stunned by Daochen’s power and reasoning, then supports his account by recalling his own encounters with the Destruction God-Demon.
• The Destruction God-Demon shifts from bafflement to belief as he experiences his regeneration and hears Hongjun’s corroborating memories. He recognizes that endless survival may be a curse.
• The other Demon Gods move from disbelief to despair, then collectively beg Pangu (Daochen) for an end to their stagnant existence. Their exchanges with Daochen center on proof, denial, and finally their plea for help.

Significant themes

• Immortality as a curse: Endless life without change, growth, or escape becomes unbearable rather than desirable.
• History and inevitability: The Demon Gods are trapped in a predetermined past, unable to alter their fate or access the future.
• Truth through experience: Daochen’s explanation becomes convincing only after the Demon Gods test it themselves.
• Identity and existence: The chapter questions whether beings who are only historical remnants can be considered truly alive.

Key plot points

• Unsure whether their actions in the past can affect the future, Daochen reassures the Chaos Demon Gods that their efforts will be remembered, giving them hope so they will cooperate.
• Daochen, Hongjun, and the others prepare to restore history by collapsing the false New World back into Chaos. The destruction drains much of Daochen’s origin and leaves him worried that he may not survive the next creation.
• Daochen tries to kill the Chaos Demon Gods, as history requires. Some die; others cannot be killed, revealing that Hongjun’s knowledge of the past is incomplete.
• Before recreating the world, Daochen makes a quiet safeguard: he creates a doppelganger and hides it inside Hongjun. He also cuts away half of Hongjun’s true body to match historical events.
• Daochen opens heaven and earth again, holds them apart with his growing body, and exhausts himself. He collapses, apparently sacrificing himself as Pangu; his body nourishes the Primordial World, and life gradually appears.
• Hongjun, Taiyi, Dijun, and the others sense a rain of merit falling on the world. Once history is restored, they find a Light Gate and escape. They emerge in the Primordial World during a war between the Human Race and the Devil Race.
• Taiyi worries about Daochen’s survival. Hongjun releases Daochen’s hidden doppelganger from inside his body.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen accepts that restoring history may require his death, yet protects against that outcome by secretly creating a doppelganger. His resolve contrasts with his growing physical weakness.
• The Chaos Demon Gods are disillusioned by the prospect of living inside an unchangeable illusion; even the immortal Destruction God-Demon has lost his enthusiasm for life.
• Hongjun follows Daochen’s plan, shelters the doppelganger, and later reassures Taiyi by revealing it.
• Taiyi shows genuine concern for Daochen, urging Hongjun to bring him out quickly. Their exchange underscores the group’s close bonds.

Significant themes

• Fate versus agency: The characters must recreate events as history demands, while Daochen’s hidden precautions offer a narrow way to preserve himself.
• Sacrifice and creation: Daochen’s body becomes the foundation of the world he creates, making his apparent death both a personal loss and a cosmic act.
• Hope and disillusionment: Daochen gives the Demon Gods hope even as some understand that their efforts may leave no trace.
• Brotherhood and loyalty: Taiyi’s concern and Hongjun’s protection show that personal bonds persist even within the constraints of history.

Plot points and events

• Daochen, Hongjun, and their companions escape the Devil Ancestor’s trap and find themselves deep in the Primordial World, near the site of Mount Buzhou. The Devil Race’s invasion is still underway, but Daochen decides the Human Race and Ten Thousand Races Alliance should handle the local devils without Sage intervention.
• Daochen remains determined to settle accounts with the Devil Ancestor and Fate, who used his children, Qingchan and Qingxuan, to pressure him. He fears Fate’s influence could harm their cultivation, even if it may not intend them direct harm.
• Daochen asks Hongjun what he knows about Fate. Hongjun describes Fate as elusive and arbitrary, able to favor some beings with extraordinary luck and bring misfortune to others. He suggests that the Heavenly Dao may be a better ally against Fate because it is bound by laws, unlike Fate.
• Daochen proposes an alliance with the Heavenly Dao: he will help it take physical form by giving it Hongjun’s body—or creating another body for Hongjun—in exchange for help locating his children.
• Speaking through Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao accepts the bargain in principle, but demands that Daochen help it gain physical form quickly. It warns that Fate is growing stronger and may eventually acquire a body of its own.
• Daochen suspects Fate is already targeting him as a possible vessel for its transformation. He also recognizes that the Heavenly Dao has its own agenda and may want him and Fate to destroy each other.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from escape and vengeance toward strategic alliance-building. His overriding concern remains rescuing his children, and he is wary of being manipulated by either Fate or the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun provides insight into Fate but is not fully speaking for himself when the alliance is discussed; the Heavenly Dao is using him as its mouthpiece.
• The Heavenly Dao reveals both its urgency and its ambition: it wants a physical body, fears Fate’s growing power, and offers to help find Qingchan and Qingxuan in return.
• The exchange between Daochen and Hongjun/the Heavenly Dao is a negotiation built on shared interests but deep mutual suspicion.

Significant themes

• Fate versus law and order: Fate is portrayed as unpredictable and intrusive, while the Heavenly Dao is constrained by rules.
• Power and manipulation: Fate, the Devil Ancestor, and the Heavenly Dao all pursue their goals through others, including Daochen’s children and Hongjun’s body.
• Family and protection: Daochen’s desire to rescue and safeguard his children drives his choices.
• Fragile alliances: Daochen and the Heavenly Dao may cooperate, but neither trusts the other’s motives.

Key plot points

• Daochen and Dao Ancestor Hongjun form an alliance against Fate. Daochen promises to help reclaim Qingchan and Qingxuan, while Hongjun agrees to surrender his body. Hongjun dismisses concerns that taking form too early could hinder his cultivation, and the two begin planning the rescue and his emergence.
• Fuxi decides to investigate the rebuilding New Heavenly Court, which he expects to oppose in the future. Disguised as a Great Luo Golden Immortal, he goes to enlist and assess the Court’s organization and strength.
• At the Southern Heavenly Gate, Fuxi sees crowds of cultivators seeking even low-ranking posts for protection. The Heavenly Court is recruiting few ordinary soldiers, instead building elite forces.
• A cultivator explains that the Court offers safety from the Devil Race and argues that survival and continued cultivation are the only paths to true immortality. Fuxi recognizes that fear of death is drawing powerful talent into the Court, weakening the broader world.
• Fuxi resolves to spread a different message among the Human Race and Ten Thousand Races Alliance: longevity alone is not enough; their generation should work toward a unified, prosperous age.

Character developments

• Daochen shows strategic resolve, securing Hongjun’s cooperation by offering an alliance against Fate.
• Hongjun remains confident in his own plans, accepting the risks of taking form.
• Fuxi moves from covert observer to someone reflecting on the deeper motives behind the Heavenly Court’s growth. His own experience with death and reincarnation strengthens his belief that life should be spent meaningfully, not merely prolonged.

Character interactions

• Daochen and Hongjun negotiate terms and quickly become allies.
• Fuxi questions a cultivator at the Heavenly Court’s entrance. Their exchange exposes how fear of the Devil Race—and the desire for survival—makes the Court attractive to the vulnerable.

Significant themes

• The limits of immortality: Long life cannot guarantee freedom from death, calamity, or despair.
• Fear as political leverage: The Heavenly Court gains strength by offering security to those afraid of the Devil Race.
• Meaningful action over mere survival: Fuxi argues that people should use their lives to build a better world rather than pursue longevity for its own sake.
• Unity and sacrifice: Fuxi sees a prosperous, unified age as the work his generation ought to undertake.

Plot points and events

• Fuxi registers in the Heavenly Court under the name Fulong, claiming the rank of a peak Great Luo Golden Immortal nearing the Quasi-Saint realm. He receives a lavish palace and hundreds of Immortal attendants, but is disgusted by the servants’ desperation and the degrading lengths some go to for status and safety.
• The Heavenly Court assigns powerful experts to risky campaigns but insists on minimizing casualties. In practice, its forces often pursue isolated Devil Race targets to earn military merit.
• Fulong is immediately ordered into the field before he has even settled in. He forms a squad of more than a thousand elite Great Luo Golden Immortals, whose members greet him with hostility and suspect he has been made their scapegoat.
• Their complaints reveal deep resentment toward Haotian. Many soldiers wanted to fight the Devil Race but were trapped in the Heavenly Court after Haotian abandoned the Primordial World. They feel controlled, under-equipped, and denied any chance to leave.
• Fuxi recognizes that Haotian is deliberately weakening these dissatisfied troops: withholding weapons and supplies, assigning inexperienced commanders, and sending them into danger. The soldiers’ defiance reflects how close they are to breaking under this treatment.

Character developments and interactions

• Fuxi/Fulong begins as an outsider unfamiliar with the Heavenly Court’s military system. He shows moral disgust at the servants’ circumstances, then uses a forceful challenge to confront his squad’s hostility and draw out their grievances.
• The veteran soldiers are seasoned fighters but demoralized and resentful. They openly criticize Haotian, though their insults toward Fulong also expose their fear that he will lead them to their deaths.
• Haotian, though absent, is portrayed as a calculating ruler who placates powerful dissenters publicly while quietly draining their strength.
• The squad’s exchange with Fulong shifts from mockery to an explanation of their history and discontent, revealing that their resistance stems from coercion rather than simple disloyalty.

Significant themes

• Power and exploitation: Immortals who lack strength or protection are reduced to serving the powerful.
• Authoritarian control and resistance: The Heavenly Court restrains its soldiers while exploiting their loyalty and limiting their freedom.
• Institutional hypocrisy: The Court claims to fight the Devil Race but prioritizes its own safety and political stability.
• Disillusionment and betrayal: Many soldiers joined hoping to defend the Primordial World, only to be abandoned and trapped by the ruler they once served.

Plot points and events

• Fuxi realizes that many Heavenly Soldiers were forced into the Heavenly Court and made obedient through soul-restraining seals: Haotian removed pieces of their souls, leaving them vulnerable to being killed at his will.
• The soldiers explain that some seals have been lifted as rewards for distinguished service, but they doubt Fuxi’s promise to help them. They suspect he simply wants to use them as expendable fighters and demand weapons and supplies before risking their lives.
• Fuxi asks about their next assignment. Over the next three days, he builds rapport with the soldiers, treating them as allies rather than outsiders.
• Their first mission is announced: their thousand-strong unit will join the main army in an attack on the Eastern Sea Devil Race. The troops expect heavy casualties, having suffered badly on previous Eastern Sea campaigns.
• The Eastern Sea is especially dangerous because its Devil-corrupted Naga and other sea forces are powerful in their own domain. The Sea Demons—described as beings with strength comparable to Sages—may soon emerge. Their power is greatly reduced on land, where the Human Race and Ten Thousand Races Alliance hold the line.
• The Heavenly Court’s campaign serves both the Eastern Sea Dragon King’s desire to reclaim territory and Haotian’s aim of wearing down troublesome or disobedient forces.

Character developments

• Fuxi recognizes that the soldiers’ resentment toward the Heavenly Court could create an opportunity to win them over to the Human Race and the Ten Thousand Races Alliance. He is shrewd about using the Heavenly Court’s forces against the Devil Race, while also showing genuine sympathy for the soldiers.
• The soldiers reveal themselves as bitter, distrustful veterans who expect to be sacrificed. Their initial hostility softens enough for them to talk openly with Fuxi, but they remain skeptical of his promises.

Significant themes

• Coercion and exploitation: The Heavenly Court controls its soldiers by holding pieces of their souls and sends unwanted forces into dangerous battles.
• Trust and loyalty: Fuxi tries to build bonds with men who have learned to distrust authority and promises.
• Political opportunism: Fuxi sees the conflict as a way to protect his own people while weakening their enemies, while the Heavenly Court uses campaigns to pursue territory and dispose of inconvenient subordinates.
• The cost of war: The soldiers’ high casualties and fatalistic outlook show how ordinary fighters bear the consequences of leaders’ ambitions.

Character interactions

• Fuxi asks the soldiers how they were controlled and whether their seals can be removed; their account prompts him to consider earning merit as a route to freeing them.
• When Fuxi offers to help lift their seals through distinguished service, the soldiers mock him, interpreting the offer as another attempt to buy their loyalty.
• Fuxi does not force the issue. He shifts to practical questions about their orders and spends three days conversing with them, gradually establishing a friendlier relationship.

Plot and events

• Fuxi leads his unit to the Eastern Sea, warning the men to stay close so he can protect them. They dismiss the offer and insist they can protect him, though their teasing also reflects genuine concern.
• The chapter explains that reaching Quasi-Saint level can make soul-based restraints much less effective. Some former powerful cultivators formally submitted to Haotian but were effectively won over with high positions in the Heavenly Court.
• At the Eastern Seashore, the Ten Thousand Races Alliance holds back the Devil Race with extensive trench defenses, ranged attacks, and frequent retreats. Their strategy forces the devils to advance slowly through successive positions.
• When a devil squad breaks through and attacks an Alliance unit, the Heavenly Court’s main force does not come to its aid. Instead, it attacks the Devil Race’s flank—suggesting the battle may involve an unspoken arrangement.
• Fuxi’s unit quickly defeats a weak devil force, and Fuxi is surprised by how easy the fighting seems. His companions explain that this is only an opening skirmish and that the Devil Race is testing the Heavenly Court.
• A much larger devil army then appears. The Northern Pole Ziwei Emperor, a powerful Quasi-Saint and one of the Heavenly Court’s Four Directional Emperors, confronts the devils and vows to destroy them. The chapter ends as Fuxi’s soldiers recognize him and prepare for a serious battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Fuxi is confident in his strength and protective toward his unit, but remains inexperienced in battlefield politics and initially misreads the scale and nature of the conflict.
• The soldiers mock Fuxi’s promise to protect them, yet show that they care about him and intend to keep him safe. They also guide him through the battlefield’s tactics and political nuances.
• The Northern Pole Ziwei Emperor is introduced as a formidable, openly hostile opponent of the Devil Race. His arrival energizes the soldiers, who expect a major fight.

Significant themes

• Camaraderie beneath bravado: The soldiers’ teasing masks loyalty and concern.
• Strategy over brute force: The Alliance relies on layered defenses, ranged attacks, and tactical withdrawal rather than direct confrontation.
• War and political ambiguity: The Heavenly Court’s choice to bypass the Alliance’s endangered unit, alongside the soldiers’ remarks, hints at tacit dealings between the Heavenly Court and the Devil Race.
• Power and control: The discussion of Quasi-Saints highlights how increased strength can weaken systems of coercion and reshape political relationships.